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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
3/21/2009	I \ D	Midnight Hot	CD	$8.99	Flux Us	"I \ D is a Singapore-based improvising noise rock collective in existence since 2005. Members profess a shared love for 70's progressive rock and jazz fusion, psychedelic rock, harsh noise, experimental electronics, postpunk and disco. They don't give a damn about what is or isn't 'tasteful', it just needs to rock n' disco you hardŠŠ Midnight Hot is a trip deep into the hard of darkness - or is that the dark of hardness - subliminally invoking the spirits of Krautrock, postpunk and early 70s jazz fusion, infused with a loving touch of crass. The music on this vinyl-length 32min album is 100% improvised and given the Teo Macero-Lee Perry sonic treatment."
3/8/2008	Ian W	Oslo Solo	CDR	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Ian W is Ian Wadley. He was in an Austrailian band that came over here and played shows a few years ago, total gutter garage rock. Here Ian performs in Oslo solo, hence the title, improvisational guitar, bluesy and bleaky soundtrack music, this reminds me of a ton of stuff, even Haino, at his most pluckery. Limited to 60 copies."
5/1/2009	Ice Bird Spiral	Psychiatmc Bloems	cassette	$6.99	Funeral Folk	"This 30 minute tape is like listening to NWW and Biohazard intros in a dentist seat, or a delay-drenched Yeovilian version of De Fabriek. Bizaradelia freak-out. They played an amazing show at the recent Kraak festival. These guys need to end up in everyone's tape deck and exotic dreams about hippie communes on Saturn in 2035!" Edition of 66 copies.
12/31/2003	Icewater Scandal	Icewater Scandal	CD	$9.99	The Social Registry	This was actually a self-titled release by AM Radio but they were forced to change their name in early 2003 (when they became Icewater Scandal). "Straight out of Brooklyn via Upstate New York, New Jersey, and Delaware comes AM Radio. Formed in the wilderness years of the late ‘90s, AM Radio combed through their influences of ‘60s experimental sounds and ‘80s indie rock verve to create a new vibe for the new century. This four piece challenges the traditional notion of finding a specific sound and sticking with it -choosing instead to mine for different inspirations without letting any one of them over take the band’s vision. The five songs on their self-titled debut E.P. were recorded and originally self released by the band in 1999. Finally being re-released now, this work presents the power and confidence of the band. At the same time, the music demonstrates the care taken to avoid overwhelming the listener with their aural arsenal. The E.P. provides a taste of their noise/pop rock sensibility (especially on the final track ‘Beezwax’, their eighteen-minute long day’s journey into night). It was this sound that got the attention of Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, who produced their first full-length album."
1/13/2004	Icewater Scandal	Live At The Seawitch	CDR	$9.99	The Social Registry	"Another special treat from our CMJ showcase: a limited edition CDR of a live performance at The Seawitch, a hardcore club on the west coast of Staten Island. We can't remember how Icewater Scandal ended up playing at a hardcore club on Staten Island but tragedy hit the band just about a week before this performance: Travis cut a big piece of his thumb off at the recycling plant he was working at. Instead of bass he played a sampling keyboard and the band wrote material especially for the occasion. Includes a great cover of Free Advice by The Great Society." Numbered edition of 50 copies - now out of print.
5/7/2004	Icewater Scandal	No Handle	DBL LP	$12.99	Social Registry	“Gathering moss is not for Icewater Scandal; they are constantly percolating with ideas. They take what they have accomplished before redefining it and then heading for new horizons. Their first album travels over new territory from their debut EP released under the AM Radio moniker. Though still filtered through their concept of taking 60¹s experimental music a la the Dream Syndicate et al, and merging that with the elan of 80’s indie rock; No Handle is at times more muscular and other times more cerebral, without losing any flair. Part of this can be attributed to their producer Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Recorded and mixed at SY¹s studio, Echo Canyon, there has been great care in getting the sound just right. Recorded, mixed and mastered all on analog equipment was a decision that allowed no ones and zeros to come between what was played and how the band wanted it heard. This foursome go from the almost jaunty Muddy Blue to the ambient heaviness of Shiny Gold to the catchy groove of Banana Ssplat without showing any seams. They are willing to let their intuition lead them, no looking over shoulders. It is a confidence that is born by the music. No Handle is sure to also carry you along with it.”
7/16/2009	Id M Theft Able	Babb's Bridge	LP	$19.99	Taped Sounds / Veglia	"This lp is a concept album about the life, energy and being of Babb's Bridge, a beautiful 19th century bridge in Windham, Maine, USA. surrounded by a misty fairytalish spirit stream, the Presumpscott River, the bridge breaths proudly and gently since 1843. Babb's Bridge has transported tourists, canoers, settlers, founding fathers, forest workers, hikers, and lovers to a new path, a pledge. the record itself is a 2 years in the making singular masterpiece of the modern tongue of the collagist. Skot Spear, the being behind the Id M monikker, has created a both retrohistorical and futuristic trip into a world of voice, tape, computer, sampling, and objects. a stream of energy, enbodied in a composition of both multitracked and direct recorded tunes. fans of e.g. Al Hansen and Crank Sturgeon will linger hapilly in this cosmos of sound. after a continuously high quality stream of releases on cdr, cassette, 7", dvd-r etc, this is Skot's first solo outing on a permanent full lenght format. a debut lp as you might want to call it....the lp comes in a full color cardboard jacket with a picture of the myth / bridge on the front, and paste-on handwritten text artwork by Skot on the back."
3/27/2004	Idea Fire Company	Explosion in a Shingle Factory	DBL LP	$19.99	Swill Radio	“Our debut. Karla and I developed the IFCO style of using collaged improvisations. In this sense, our music is both improvised and composed. Lots of synths, field recordings, and whatnot. New lower priced edition of the first IFCO double LP. Now comes with one of a series of four color drawings by Karla. No more hand marbled prints.”
3/27/2004	Idea Fire Company	Rags To Riches	C90	$6.99	Pineapple Tapes	“IFCO storm back to the front with our first release since Anti-Natural. Rags To Riches features the new quartet line up, with Jessi Swenson and Meara O'Reilly joining Karla and myself. This is a taster for the upcoming Stranded LP.”
11/25/2003	Iditarod	Yuletide	DBL CD	$18.99	Camera Obscura	"One of the ways in which the Rhode Island psych-folk duo Iditarod (Jeffrey Alexander, Carin Wagner and friends) celebrated their favourite season was to make special year-end recordings as gifts for their friends. Their very first release was a cassette-only production in late 1997. They had a release show in Baltimore with Poem Rocket and Bardo Pond and later mailed the tapes (less than 30 copies total) to friends and family. The following year, Hub City records wanted to release it on CD, so we added extra tracks and it became their first CD proper 'The River Nektar'. In late 2000, they decided to make another year-end record, on CD-R. This one was specifically Winter-related and was the first of what would become annual Yuletide releases. Not so much 'holiday' oriented as they are seasonal - a celebration of the turning of the year, darkness, cold, snow, death and re-birth. Camera Obscura fell in love with these recordings, and is now releasing them officially with a boatload of bonus material. Jeffrey continues the story: 'The Iditarod disbanded in April 2003. It seems appropriate that this double Yuletide collection will be the Iditarod's final, posthumous release, as these are recordings that we love about a time of year that we love. It's great that we're now able to share these with more people. Disc I. 'Winter Suite' was recorded in February 2003 at AS220 in Providence by Jed Marshall - it was one of our few 'studio' sessions and featured the same quartet line-up as our 2003 UK tour with Sharron Kraus: Miriam, Will, Carin and myself. The track's centrepiece, Winter, a long-time Iditarod live staple, was originally issued on the first Yuletide CDR, but this is a previously unreleased version. The rest of the Suite has never been issued in any form. The following eight tracks were originally self-released on CDR as 'Yuletide' (Winter 2001-2002, edition of 75). One song from the original release 'Winter's Spell' has been omitted, as an updated version of it was included on the 2002-2003 instalment of 'Yuletide' (Elsie and Jack Records). All of the other songs are presented here in their original order, now properly mastered. 'Darkness, Darkness' and 'Night's Candles Are Burnt Out' are two pieces that we wrote for our 2002 tour of New England and Canada's Maritime Provinces with Sharron Kraus. 'Y Cwps' is a live improvisation from our one and only performance in Wales, where we were hosted by Dafydd and Ruth of Oggum Records and Alphane Moon. These three tracks are all previously unreleased. Disc II begins with the live version of 'The Trees Are All Bare' that we performed at the fifth Terrastock festival. Our original version was released on the Elsie and Jack Yuletide CD. 'Scandinavian Instrumental', 'The Rowan' and 'Mountains Of The Moon' (yes, the Grateful Dead song) were all recorded live at our VPRO radio session in Holland during our second European tour. All unreleased previously. The following six tracks were originally self-released on CDR as 'Yuletide' (Winter 2000-2001, edition of 75). Again, there is one omission from the original release 'Winter' as the newer studio version is included here on Disc I. 'In The Bleak Midwinter' is a familiar seasonal hymn that I arranged with some new music. The lyrics come from a poem by Christina Rosetti , updated by Laura Deal Raeder. 'Unspherical' was a track that we recorded during the 'Ghost, the Elf, the Cat and the Angel' sessions but never mixed. This early live version is the only vestige of the song. 'Boat', one of Carin's first songs, remains one of her best. It was recorded during our first Scandinavian tour by Benny (Origami Galaktika) - he joined in with his fujara. 'There Was A Pig Went Out To Dig' is another old children's carol associated with traditional English folk plays (often called mummer's plays) that celebrate the death of the year. It's a funny rhyme, personifying animals with the cycle of planting and harvest. 'Wide Oak-And-Iron' is another recording with Benny from the same session as Boat. This is previously unreleased. The last track is another traditional verse from the British Isles that I set to new music. Although 'Thierna Na Oge' was not originally intended as a Winter recording (it was previously issued on the 'Poor Minstrels of Song, Vol I' compilation CD, 2001), we chose to include it for several reasons. It was one of our favorite Iditarod recordings and the lyrics are suitably fitting - suggesting hope and re-birth in a time of death. It also seemed very appropriate that this piece should be the last song on the final Iditarod release."
6/1/2002	Iditarod, The	The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat, & the Angel	CD	$11.99	Blue Sanct	“Although their live shows seem to be heading in some sort of sprawling prog-rock direction, the second album by this Rhode Island combo retains the rustic folk cloud-draping seasoned listeners expect. The band's main shakers are Jeffrey Alexander and Carin Wagner, who also run the Magic Eye record label. Carin's voice haunts the same corridors as those visited by many Brits of the classic UK acid-folk era, while the band wraps things in sheets of pure acoustic trembling, shot through with quivering veins of electric-psych mist. On a couple of tracks there's some extra weight provided by the similarly-minded German duo, Fit & Limo, but the Iditarod really have enough autonomous meat to go it alone. The pieces here (a couple of which are instrumentals) manage to combine the mournfulness of the English folk tradition with the gentle confoundment of early psychedelic explorers in a fine and original way. Like the work of Kendra Smith's Guild of Temporal Adventurers, this music has some similarities to that of previous travelers (stoned, world-wise and earthy), but it collects itself inside a genteel cloud of incense that is unique. There are some songs (like ‘Cycle Circle’) combining the classicist elements with more contemporary-sounding techniques, but the vast majority of this could easily be a lost Harvest label master from the early '70s. And as such, it's a treat and a bargain to boot.” - Byron Coley
1/29/2003	Iditarod, The	The River Nektar	CD	$13.99	BlueSanct	"The production on the Iditarod's 1998 debut is sparser than it would evolve into by the time of their The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat, and the Angel four years later. Yet the approach is the same: minimal, spooky folk-psych-pop, featuring Carin Wagner's tremulous vocals, mystically-tinged words suggesting a fragile pastoralism, and overall establishing the mood of walking through an enchanted but haunted forest. Though the backing is dominated by acoustic guitar, it's augmented by weird touches such as violin-like drones, eerie slide, disconsolate tambourine rattles, effects that sound like wind and dog barks through a white noise filter, thunderstorm prattles, and chirping birds. It's music for the slow hours and solitary places, for sure, Wagner's voice sometimes faltering as though she's afraid of waking the neighbors. On one of the more disquieting cuts, ‘Boat,’ her quivering lead is doubled by another voice (hers?), faintly in the background, that sounds like a woman on the verge of a low-key nervous breakdown. The 2003 CD reissue adds nine bonus tracks from out-of-print singles and outtakes, similar to those on the proper album but sometimes a little more lo-fi (and occasionally live, if the low-volume crowd noise on some tracks is an accurate indication). Most of the bonus material presents songs not on the album in any form, with the exception of a live version of ‘Boat’ and an ‘original version’ of ‘Garden’; also among the bonus cuts are covers of Donovan's ‘The Lullaby of Spring’ and Brian Eno's ‘The Fat Lady of Limbourg.’" - Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
2/26/2003	Iditarod, The with Sharron Kraus	Yuletide	CD	$15.99	elsieandjack	"This one is a collaboration with our favorite British folksinger Sharron Kraus and it was just too good for a CD-R release, so the fine folks at Elsie & Jack stepped in. What a perfect home for this record as the label is equally split between the UK and USA, just like the artists! Five songs wander in and out of Jeffrey's additional atmospheric creations, totaling 42 minutes of music. Includes an update on 'Winter's Spell' recorded live at WFMU and the studio version of 'The Trees Are All Bare', which was a much-asked about highlight of our Terrastock set. The lovely package was designed and hand-assembled by Elsie & Jack."
12/24/2005	If, bwana	Gruntle	CD	$12.99	Absurd	"guess that most of you are used to al margolis's (aka 'if,bwana) more 'serious' electroacoustic soundscapes and expect 'gruntle' to be another fine addition to this style.. in a sense it is... a unique if,bwana recording, collecting 4 tunes recorded between 95 - 02 which however refer more to the legendary if,bwana tapes sound (if there weren't a kinda remaster to the original tapes, would have been even more lo-fi hissing electroacoustics) where al's creative play w/ loops & enigmatic sounds together w/ the childlike artwork of nixilx.nijilx make it a wonderful trip in a bizarro world..."
9/24/2009	Iibiis Rooge (Astral Social Club + High Wolf)	Ilbiis Rooge	CDR	$10.99	Winged Sun	"Superastral team, iibiis rooge is the proof that the famous 1+1=3 equation is correct. Modern psychedelic High Wolf jams + Astral Social Club fucked up improv electronics = something we don't have a name for. Better than a one shot collab this duo is made to last. Forthcoming debut LP on Dekorder." - label. Edition of 99 copies.
	Il Leone	Petroushka	Hardcover book	$20.99		"The actual identity of the author is a mystery - even the publisher says he does not know exactly who ‘Il Leone (The Lion)’ really is, although he is described as a kind of troubadour poet living more or less on nothing in a variety of countries, mainly in Europe; the book certainly shows the influence of early 20th Century artistic schemes (especially Russian Futurism) and the nod to Stravinsky in the use of the puppet show character Petroushka and the explosive nature of some of the writing is probably no accident. But there is something more potent and intense and scathing (and ultimately more original) in the satire of some of the set pieces; stories within stories within stories, deaths without reasons, strange reports of war, a tale told by trees, sections of lyrical mourning, meetings with historic figures all intertwined with agility. Ultimately nothing is more psychedelic than a season in hell when led there by a wayfaring stranger with a taste for the obscure."
11/21/2009	Ilios	Kenrimono	LP	$26.99	Pan	"'Kenrimono' is a type of pachinko machine for advanced players which gives certain privileges during the course of a high-risk game. This LP is entirely based on field recordings and manipulations made from sounds in pachinko parlors in Kansai area, Japan in 2007. A very intense and meditative atmosphere to be played at maximum volume. Active since the early 90's in sound art and image, ILIOS has been exploring the extremes of sound and image derived phenomena. Through constant change in his sound palette touching and surpassing the limits of the sound spectrum he definitely advocates for an anti-career. By 2009 ILIOS has performed more than 170 times in various venues and festivals in Asia, Europe, South and North America, pushing the space and body resistances to a hard test pursuing a state of alert for the human senses. He has done studio and live collaborations with the likes of: Francisco Lopez, Jason Kahn, Keiichiro Shibuya, Mattin, Michael Gendreau, Norbert Möslang, Coti K, Xabier Erkizia, Julien Ottavi, Bernd Schurer, Ralph Steinbruechel, Takehiro Nishide, Tzesne, Thurston Moore amongst many others. Since 1997 he runs Antifrost, a publishing label for sound media with more than 40 works published to date. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs." - label.
7/12/2004	Ilitch	Hors Temps / Out of Time	CD	$17.99	Fractal	"Thierry Muller - Ilitch's head- is the multi-intrumentalist dark experimental french composer who started his musical carreer with the band Arcane as an underground electronics improvisations outfit around the years 1974. Albums Periodkmintrouble 1978 & 10 suicides 1980 were Ilitch's first two works followed by the Ruth pop synth project Polaroid roman photo in 1985. All three are now reissued on CD with many unreleased bonus material by Fractal Records. Well received by many critics today, Ilitch took a solid place in the french underground scene from that area and was a serious source of influence on several groups/artists such as The Legendary Pink Dots for instance. After 24 years, the third and brand new Ilitch album is now released, titled ironically Hors Temps / Out of time and was composed during the last five years. More than a gap, it s a generation of sounds in between... and Thierry Muller is at the rendez-vous : a full album in 9 electropopsonics excursions through the time with a pleiade of colored sounds (vocals, guitar, vocals, drums, percussions, farfisa, rhythmic programms, treated piano etc...). From the mellow pop to the angry waves, Hors Temps / Out of time is a blink at the early hours and a poetic reflection and vision on life. With the participation of the great musician poet Philippe Doray! Subtle pop power for adult entertainment. Rendez-vous Hors Temps."
12/16/2003	Ilitch	Periodikmindtrouble	DBL CD	$24.99	Fractal	"Periodikmindtrouble is Ilitch's (a.k.a Thierry Muller) first album, released on Oxygène Rec. in 1978. This reissue present for the first time the complete works of Periodkmindtrouble such as it had been conceived and should be released at that time: as a double LP. So, here it is as a double CD (including a 12 pages color booklet) with the following musical works : the album Periodikmindtrouble in its entirety, plus the complete recordings of Innerfilmsequence, plus the unreleased track 'Ballades urbaines', plus some archives from 1974 as bonus tracks (total time : 146 minutes). Thierry Muller is a French guitarist, who has made three LPs : Periodikmindtrouble (1978), 10 Suicides (1980), Polaroïd/Roman/Photo (1985). The music is electronic, experimental, harsh, repetitive, personal and can be compare with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Cluster, Conrad Schnitzler, Kraftwerk, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Heldon, Lard Free. Unfortunately unrecognized in France (even not mention in the booklet introduction of the 3CD Box set French compilation 30 Years Of Musical Insurrection In France 1968-1998 ...!), Ilitch did not fall in the ear of a deaf person, because it is not by accident if Thierry Muller appears on the famous 'list' by Steven Stapleton/Nurse With Wound on Chance meeting... (1979)!"
	Ill Wind	Flashes	LP	$22.99	Akarma	"Ultra rare album originally released in 1968 on ABC. Strongly recommended psychedelic Boston based combo previously known as The Prophets. Contains 3 bonus tracks. Original artwork."
7/16/2006	Ill Wind Ensemble	Nobody Goes that Way	CDR	$9.99	Spirit of Orr	"Kevin Moreau, Charlie Schneeweis and John Levin started the Ill Wind Ensemble in 1993. The original band had a shifting line up that included many of the wayward musicians that hung out at McNeil's here in Brattleboro VT. By 1994 they had settled down to a quartet, with percussionist Eric Boyer, that would perform together for another seven years. This recording from 1995 documents that quartet as they began to hone their free improvisations into a collective musical language. Using instruments from western, world, and home-made traditions, as well as toys and other found objects, and guided by a shared passion for droning modes, the unpredictable tunings of folk winds and reeds, and careful listening, the group, as Kevin liked to put it, "peeled the paint off the walls" of his Wilder Building studio with sounds like the ones captured on this CD. Originally produced in home-duplicated cassette format and sold only at concerts in a proto-internet and pre-downloadable world, this Spirit of Orr release captures a lost moment in time. Limited to 100 hand assembled copies."
2/7/2009	Ilza	Ilza	cassette	$8.99	Tusco Embassy	"Second installment of strange, burnt out tape manipulation and keyboard noodling by member of the mysterious Synapse Dragon. Two color screened wrap around inserts. Limited to 40."
10/21/2009	Imaginary Softwoods	The Invisible Cloud Container	c10 cassette	$7.99	Pizza Night	Edition of 100 copies - sold out at label.
10/6/2007	IMCA	IMCA	CD	$12.99	Absurd	"I have to admit that I have a love-hate relation with this album. I love the way this album was made. It represents a somewhat bygone musical age, a time with cassettes and without e-mail, when things worked perhaps slower, but perhaps also more intensely. The full story of how the IMCA project (International Musique Concrete Ensemble) came together is told in detail in the CD booklet. In short, in 1990 Frans de Waard started a mail collaboration with John Hudak and Jos Smolders for a cassette on Midas Music, and later a second one with Guido Huebner (of Das Synthetisches Mischgewebe), Ios Smolders and Isabelle Chemin, which was the LP released by Korm Plastics. The basic soundmaterial (created by De Waard) was mailed to the first recipient who would rework the material and mail it to the next recipient etcetera. Thus a network chain was born. The results were released on the original IMCA album, which came on glorious white vinyl and contained an explanatory booklet. The vinyledition consisted of 98 copies; 77 of these were for the public, 21 for the makers, resulting in the fact that many people knew about it, but only a few actually heard the music. I remember I was supposed to help gluing the covers, but I can't remember if I did in the end. I was given a free copy, so perhaps I did. I love the way this re-release is presented; an old tattered cover of the LP was used for this CD, which gives it a nice archival touch. The booklet is well-designed (by Meeuw), contains some of the original notes and explains the recording process in detail. But now to the music: IMCA is not easy listening, it is in fact a very demanding, electro-acoustic record with extreme dynamics. These dynamics were a bit lost on the original pressing on vinyl, but due to Jos Smolder's remastering these are back in place, which means you'll get to hear the IMCA ensemble as it was meant to be heard. The opening track of the CD still gives me a headache: high pitched feedback shrieks close to the level of irritation. It's hard to listen to this without turning the volume down. Luckily the electro-acoustic/musique concret of IMCA becomes more listenable after the challenging intro. The often dry sounds (dry as in untreated") are combined with long silences, with, at times, sudden blasts of concrete noise. Most of the used sounds seem to have their origin in noise (musique concret) rather than a musical source. Despite the many hands at the wheel of this album, the results are strangely coherent, which is a complement to those involved. In total 10 tracks are indexed, even though it's hard to tell where one ends and the other one begins. IMCA is probably best enjoyed in one long listening session in the right frame of mind. The final 2 tracks, which make up for the final 30 minutes of this CD, feature side A and B from the Midas cassette version with contributions from John Hudak. Here the sound is more traditional industrial if you like, with rhythms and a bit of a Nurse With Wound touch. Not bad at all. This is an important archive release of an album made by adventurous musicians who actually live up to their name. Like back in 1991, I'm not sure if it's musically a classic, but I am very happy to have this in my collection." - Freek Kinkelaar, Vital Weekly
11/27/2007	Impromptulons, The	Beat It / Beat Off	3" CDR	$7.99	Black Petal	"6 piece improv slop from brisbane featuring mr joel stern and members of such classic brisbane groups as the perfect lovers, no guru and faber castell. apparently born from the mantra of 'everybody solos, nobody solos'; this sounds more like 'everybody is on the one, nobody is on the one'. 3" cdr with handmade covers."
4/24/2006	In/Flux	Cryptic Cloak	CDR	$7.99	Jyrk	"The first time I met these dudes, we were playing a show in Vancouver, B.C. and this girl that had been doing yoga on the floor rolled up to me and handed me a CDR with an old pinup playing card sewn to the cover... she said "she's for you... from back when boobs were real...." and then she just rolled off... Shit was totally mysterious.... and the next day, Gabe pulls out his copy of the CDR with this naked dude on it and we put it on... Both of us were totally stunned.. Basically.. it was this CDR by In/Flux called "Hoc-Age." It's total outsider noise if there ever was such a thing.. totally lo-fi and disjointed yelps, guitar skree, lots of unidentifiable things happening... Similar murk to those like The Skaters and Dead C, but the actual identifiable sounds are way different.. maybe something like if the dead C self-titled double disc from a few years back was way more lo-fi and they were super young genderfuckers from canada with a hell of a lot of inspiration and piles of totally shitty gear. "Cryptic Cloak" is a reissue of "Hoc-Age" with additional tracks from the "Metalguests" CDR... 100 copies."
3/27/2004	Inaba, Shuji	The rapture of being destroyed is the flipside of the misery of destruction	CD	$12.99	Last Visible Dog	"Shuji Inaba is a Japanese avant-folk singer and guitarist who hasn't reached the same level of documentation as peers like Kan Mikami and Kazuki Tomokawa. No 13 cd box set for Shuji yet! And some might find the prospect of such a box set quite frightening - a single disc of his raw acoustic guitar playing and whisper-scream vocalizations will be more than enough for a lot of folks. Others will find Inaba's Rapture Of Being Destroyed to be a harrowing yet compelling listen. With some tracks filled with stark outbursts from silence and others more 'song' like, this is a great record recommended for those who already dig the likes of Dead Raven Choir and the aforementioned Kan Mikami. This Last Visible Dog cd release comes with Inaba's poetic lyrics translated into English by Alan Cummings, always a nice touch although the emotion of the man's singing and playing requires no translation. And to quibble: we suggest that perhaps the word 'flipside' in the title might have been better rendered as 'inverse'... 'flipside' just seems too slangy for stuff this deep and intense." - Aquarius Records
7/30/2006	Inaba, Shuji	Yoenzange	CD	$12.99	Last Visible Dog	"Perhaps this wispy history, built as much upon the shadow ground of myth, rumor and superstition as upon sun-kissed fact, accounts for the spooked air that animates Inaba's every breath. The spirit of personal myth permeates too his lyrics, which at their most opaque seem to float through the mists of a timeless rural antiquity. Heard here in his natural element of a live concert (his previous two albums, "Innen Kaho" on Planktone and "Land of Prayer" on PSF were both studio recordings) we can hear true the spirit winds whistling through ancient cryptomeria groves, stirring the bark shingles on shrine roofs." --from the liner notes by Alan Cummings
10/17/2009	Inca Ore	Silver Sea Surfer School	LP	$12.99	Not Not Fun	"Eva Saelens’ life quest has taken her from Michigan to Oregon to Oakland back to Portland and back again, with several overseas explorations and inner journey road trips thrown in for good measure. Whatever path she’s on is long and winding and hidden in the shadow of overhanging cherimoya trees. Fortunately she maps her migrations with haunted, exotic breath-and-electricity sphinxes ranging from 2006’s Brute Nature Vs. Wild Magic to last year’s brainwashing Birthday Of Bless You LP. 2009 finds her offering up another psychic harvest unto the world, Silver Sea Surfer School, a new nine-song pipeline ride that floats through a whole new web of voice orbs and tape hiss and keyboard balladry. If anything, Silver Sea is Saelens’ weirdest hour, layered in abstract environments, whispers, distant poetry, free percussion loops, with sudden passages of heart-dissolving ghost-piano beauty (“Shine On From The Heaven Above,” “Adventure In Light”). Heavily impressive, and a brave pearl-dive into even more personal waters for the Inca Ore lifeforce. LPs come in jackets with art by Saelens, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 500 (40 on clear ocean-water vinyl, 180 on marbled blue/white, 280 on black)."
1/24/2009	Inca Ore / Tunnels / Argumentix / Ghost to Falco	Post-Alarmist Dracula Safari	LP	$13.99	Oms-b	"This 12" is in dedication to Alarmist, a post-animal band from portland OR from 2004-2005. They influenced the people that saw them play and took your carpet for a joy ride once or twice while you knew them. Nick B (drums) aka TUNNELS donates some tracks of psychedelic pop unlike other recordings under the same name. Recorded during the last few days of the band and after the break up. Eric C.(guitar) aka GHOST TO FALCO brings you 2 tracks one almost like a 1 minute western dirge the other more in the traditions of GHOST TO FALCO style recordings. James S.(vocals) aka ARGUMENTIX dabbles in the world of industrial beats and stories of a world left behind in 3034. Assisted on these recordings by Hando on sax. Eva aka INCA ORE(vocals) delivers a chopped and screwed version of some of her recordings mixed with clips of ALARMIST live shows she picked up from Friend Mansion a few years after the fact. On the first track of side crocodile you can hear the ode to ALARMIST by M.Remy (U.S. GIRLS) as she calls in to a radio interview the band was doing. Non of the 4 solo artist sound anything like what ALARMIST was doing and non of the solo projects sound a like. This is a great collection of eclectic music." Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl.
2/11/2006	Incomparables Club	The Palace at 4 a.m	CDR	$8.99	Black Velvet Fuckere	"Recorded in Louisville, Kentucky over 10 years ago, Incomparables Club "The Palace at 4 a.m." suffered numerous manufacturing and financial delays and was never released. Until now. This is middle of the night loner lobal swabere at its most isolated and sparse, tempered with strong doses of melancholia yet delivered in virile living color. Conjured up is serious head music that continues to reveal itself via repeated listenings. "The Palace at 4 a.m." is a jig saw puzzle and road map. It is stocked full of allusions covering all corners of the conceptual world (film, literature and art) - yet it never succumbs to a gratuitious pose. Despite its heavy "avant-electronic/music-concrete" vein, this record refuses to take itself too seriously and steers clear of the yahoo-serious trappings of the turtleneck-girdled "avant" world. Tropes akin to the Shadow Ring and the LAFMS' finest moments appear a la oddball what-the-fuck? dandruff scratcher post urination dribble confusion. Laced inside the flow and stride are short spoken excerts from a dream diary kept for over 20 years by the album mastermind, Norman Minogue. Via theremin, shortwave radio, turntable and cello and other instruments Minogue mindmelds with in a makeshift living room studio often paired with Steve Good on bass clarinet and b-flat clarinet. The collective intuition and unconscious underbelly swabbing between the two is pure and is ancient and is unmatched. Both Good and Minogue played together in EOR, the little known Louisville based group of the early 90's that somehow treaded ground between the sound worlds of Bone Cure and the Dead C and are surely the only firebrand improv group to release vinyl on Will Oldham's record label. Both also have played on numerous Eugene Chadbourne recordings including the "I Talked to Death in Stereo" LEO album. This CD-R release is packaged with no less love than a quality CD release - via full color gloss - gnarly mug shots, valium with halos and cinematic tape art collage juxtapose the sound substance with the art artifact. Much like the work of Raymond Roussel, from whom the group name is lifted, INCOMPARABLES CLUB have nothing to say and they say it poorly. Despite this seemingly pejorative context, this album creates and exists in an intoxicating world unto itself smearing soundcolor beyond the 3rd dimension - justifing the handle: Incomparables Club."
2/2/2002	Incredible String Band	Chelsea Sessions '67	CD	$13.99	Pig's Whisker	"Terrific and exciting group of studio demos, recorded after the first ISB LP, after Clive's departure from the group, and upon Robin's return from Morocco. And there you have it, the Chelsea Sessions; previously unissued gems plus early versions of what would soon become classics in the loopy legacy of the ISB on the 5000 Spirits & Wee Tam LP's some with different lyrics. These have clearly been taken from the master tapes and digitally mastered, as the sound is of superb quality! Essential album for the ISB collection, which is not something we would say recklessly."
9/3/2003	Incredible String Band, The	The Incredible String Band	LP	$17.99	Sundazed	"If any musical combo ever meshed perfectly with the times it was the Incredible String Band. And here's the proof: their 1966 debut, The Incredible String Band; 1967's The 5000 Spirits Or Layers Of The Onion; and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter from 1968 - all on deep-grooved, 180-gram vinyl. The wildly eclectic Scottish folk outfit - with the airy vocals and fretboard prowess of Robin Williamson and Mike Heron as its two constants - began life resurrecting wondrous and ancient Celtic ballads, then was transformed by the perfumed winds of 1967's psychedelic revolution to add sitar, oud, gimbri and all manner of exotic axes to its arsenal. The result is a gently mesmerizing psychedelia and anti-folk stance - consummate counterpoint to current psych heroes like Mogwai and Beachwood Sparks - that makes perfectly clear why the Incredible String Band remains just that: Incredible."
4/20/2008	Indian Sonic Omnibus	Indian Sonic Omnibus	CDR	$7.99	Majmua Music	"Recorded over three trips to India (2002, 2003 & 2004/2005) using inexpensive recording media (minidisk and cassette recorders). Granted, it is not a journey for the audiophile purist out there, but you'll want to hop aboard this omnibus to hear examples of street and temple music, as well as field recordings and incidential sounds and more from many corners of this vast country! From the brass marching bands of Mysore's famed Dasara parade to recordings from the Joydev Mela that you won't find on a "proper" world music sampler, we have strived to present a work that touches on our sonic experiences - yes the experiences of outsiders but a fascinating experience nevertheless. Our primary interest in this release is to present that which might usually get pushed into the margins, the joy of sound as it appears in a part of the world, as it really manifests - not prettied up for the sake of presentability. Serene bhajans and festival party bands exist in the same place, isn't it time they share the same disc? From a boat ride down the Ganges with dueling rituals vying for your attention to impassioned nadaswaram/saxophone/percussion music from a Jain holy site to a mandolin/tabla duo that conjure up images of surf guitar, we bring you some amazing sounds that you won't even have to catch a train (although to relive that there's track 13) to experience in the course of an hour!" Limited edition of 75 copies.
4/29/2008	Indoorpark	The Neutral Mile	CDR	$9.99	Deep Water	"Indoorpark is the Detroit-based duo of Nick Schillace and Jon Moshier, and we're thrilled to have their debut release on Deep Water. Schillace is better known among wise ears as one of the finest post-Fahey acoustic guitarists on the scene today (with several CDs and lots of touring to prove it), and while his deft stringwork is well on display here, this is anything but a folk album. Instead, The Neutral Mile serves up seven tracks (42 minutes) of rich vintage-future soundscapery, nimble hollowbody fingerpicking combining with crisp, driving drumming and occasional samples/electronics in an extremely cinematic fashion. You could strain your brain trying to come up with some new hyphenated hybrid description (neo-post-art-folk-rock… ack) or you could just settle back and let the music take your mind on a tomorrowland trip. We recommend the latter. CD-R in offset printed digipack."
11/21/2009	Infecto	Painted Pangs	c60 cassette	$7.99	American Tapes	"First tape by this INFECTED new unit. Looking to spread painted pangs of creeping electronic somber New Years End soundtracks to massives of purging hog-things. Live and INZANE studio four track abstractions galore from SLOBBER MAN. Drooling, repetitive and on the chase of a Plot Plan of a castle surrounded by transparent columns, all leading nowhere. Blueprint reading for braile abstractions. Making a building out of wheat waste and rotten husks. Nasty Sound Alert! Strange maps from strange internal zones. Color covers Edition of 40."
7/16/2009	Infinite Body / Emaciator	split	LP	$11.99	Monorail Trespassing	"Saturated harsh melodicism from ib; two tracks bridged by a solo voice recording. synth driven by the human voice; screaming to make beautiful tones. emaciator side is a dense, dense drone of older / early style throb getting submerged by layers upon layers of guitar drones and keyboard melodies -- finally wearing down to an optimistic close. edition of 500, pro-printed sleeves."
12/4/2003	Infinity	Collected Works 1969-1970	LP	$24.99	Acme	"Fascinating psychedelic progressive sounds from the band that emerged from the ashes of legendary UK underground band The Flies; thirteen tracks, all recorded for the album that the band was never fated to release recordings from Tangerine and Essex Studios, featuring eventual T2 leader Peter Dunton; most compelling tracks include a version of the Beatles’ ‘Taxman’, and their would-be single, ‘Pattern People’ from a home demo; limited edition LP has band history, and typical stylish Acme packaging."
10/9/2003	Ink Puddle Compound	Tantrum Seas and Dust Lanes	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"Tantrum Seas and Dust Lanes is an assured debut from Brandon Siscoe - an artist who is comfortable laying down a wide range of textures, from minimalist electronics in the mould of early Rough Trade releases to edgy acoustic folk that dovetails nicely with a lot of the current generation of NYC 'apartment folk' which is being heavily cited by various tastemakers. Siscoe's ghostlike vocals seem to have travelled from some far away somnolent cave and make a nice bedfellow for a subtle web of melancholy electronics, guitars, piano and other found or orphaned instruments. He plays all of the instruments on his recordings; layering them to create interesting synergies and interplays, thus avoid the one-dimensionality associated with many one-person projects. Releases by Siscoe under the Ink Puddle Compound banner display the artist's desire to find a middle ground between structured songwriting and more abstract experimental compositions. The artist cites influences from the Swans, Legendary Pink Dots, and Incredible String Band, to Brian Eno, Silver Apples, and Sonic Boom. In the eleven diverse tracks here, the listener will probably also detect parallels to early UK post-rock outfits such as A.R. Kane, Bark Psychosis and Disco Inferno. Ultimately though, Siscoe continues to bring to the table songs and sounds of seemingly alien origin."
3/5/2009	Insayngel	Insayngel	LP	$14.99	Heavy Tapes	"We saw Insayngel play some time in 2008 or maybe the end of 2007 at Glasslands. Immediately we said to each other "This band needs to have a record out. Let's do it." We talked to the band after the gig and they were down -- it was recorded, mastered by our friend Todd Cavallo, and sent off to the plant. Insayngel is Calder, Caitlin, Richard, and John. Calder and Caitlin are Vizusa and used to jam Excepter, and Richard and John are the brutal rhythm unit of Sightings. An intriguing combination of players to say the least, this LP brings a 30th Century sound to the history of New York City. The locked, wrecked rhythms, desparate, gorgeous wails, and shredded, anxious guitars are symphonic, undulating, impossible. A serious now vision that impressed us deeply enough to be the first LP we've ever done. Art by Calder, pressed in Brooklyn, New York."
10/25/2008	Inseminoid	Pagan Anorexia	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Culver / Mutant Ape creep collab of the tone dead basement variety. zombie tones that are insomniac from birth just searching for a warm grave. tangled up in the webs is fantasy-esque darkness that oozes an "under the bed / in the closet" macabre feeling. will leave you black in the bloodstream."
	Institut Fuer Feinmotorik	Negemergenz	LP	$11.99	Fusetron	"A project which is interested in the complex relationship between the perception of micro- phenomenons in acoustic and visual spheres and the precisioned stumbling through micro-social behaviour in daily situations".
2/21/2007	Iovae	Civilization	CD	$7.99	SNSE	"...Here layers of brutal droning, ferocious fuzz and other various eardrum shredding devices are seamlessly soldered together to produce a work that delivers an almost hallucinatory impact. Sounds that were once identifiable as just noise slowly take on a form of their own. As Civilization really begins to slide, these begin to mutate into a more detailed (and spikier) soundtrack. At its best, Civilization is the sound of everything falling apart." - The Wire, December 2005. "Outside of Iovae, Ron is a member of the long-running Art Damage radio program and also pulls duty in the twerked "rock" band Death Beam. Iovae has shared collaborative releases with Mammal and Burning Star Core. He has had multiple CDR releases including some on C. Spencer Yeh's Drone Disco imprint, as well as on John Olson's (Wolf Eyes, Dead Machines,) American Tapes label. One of the most impressive of these prior releases, Quartervois, was reissued in proper CD format by the German experimental music label Zarek in 2004. Civilization is Iovae's second pro-pressed CD release and SNSE is honored to present it to you." Edition of 420 copies, pro-printed on textured cardstock, in clear jewel case.
3/21/2007	Iovae	Radio Exorcisms	3" CDR	$7.99	Chondritic Sound	"Tactile oscillator churn and phased/juddering radio hi-jack from Ron Orovitz of Cincinnati who has shared splits with heads like Mammal and Burning Star Core. This is one sick tunnel of churn, with minimal percussive thud and patches of mainlined tongue extended to infinity." Numbered edition of 153.
7/16/2006	Iovae / Three Legged Race	Heliofugue / Calling Order	7"	$5.99	Epicene	"Two of my favorite modern noise makers from the states have to be HAIR POLICE and IOVAE. This is very close to being a split from both. IOVAE is Ron Orovitz also known as the D.J. on ART DAMAGE RADIO, a memeber of the no-wave nosie group DEATH BEAM, a noise weirdos WILD GUNMAN. For IOVAE's track we get slow churning crackle, pop and hiss from the "Grinder" (a series of ancient military oscillators) that builds into what sounds like the church bell tones of a satanic mass echoing through the devils canyon. 3 LEGGED RACE is Robert from HAIR POLICE and EYES AND ARMS OF SMOKE. For the Race side we get one ominous heavenly droning swelling tone which is given the extreme reverb treatment until it sounds like a white washed blissed out radiant hum. The artwork was designed by Robert and is a must see. One sheet of lines with a transparency of lines. but when one is placed over the othere, you start to see a hidden image. Also just moving the transparency around on top of the other page makes alot of tripped out intersecting lines. like i said one you have to see, def one of the best looking, most intresting covers in EPICENE history. Limited edition of 300 copies, split release with Mark of Black Tent's Gentian label."
9/30/2005	Irene Moon	Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon presents: Excerpts From Field Station	10"	$12.99	Begonia Society	"10 inches of fun--entomology lectures set to organ music. Repressed in 2004."
9/30/2005	Irene Moon & Friends	For the Neonate	10"	$12.99	Begonia Society	"New 10 inch record from the begonia society. Irene Moon and pals. Silk-screened glitter-gold covers with music from Irene Moon, Ergo Phizmiz, Auk Theatre, and Sick Hour all participate in the vinyl event. Artwork and larval centifold from the drawings of Brenden Lawson. Horror for the breakfast table. One odd collage."
9/30/2005	Iron Kite, The	No Eyebrows	CD	$12.99	Twilight Flight Sound	"Brand new full-length album - recorded live at 'Beerland', Austin, Texas, 19/9/04 - from this free/trance/psych group featuring Shawn McMillen ex-Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast and current Friday Group member (alongside Tom Carter of Charalambides). This one starts out with a fried forest of percussive hump and throat ritual that sparks the same kind of brain-pyre as the more blackly folkloric Sun City Girls recordings. As the tracks progresses the gongs start to sound more like human skulls and the combination of punk guitar flail, moog and percussion drags the whole deal all the way through to an alternative time-line where The Familiar Ugly scored an extended, cassette-only cover of the dying seconds of No New York. Cover features a demonic cartoon hermaphrodite with six sweating tits, mouths for hands and a hairy cartoon schlong. Looks like they got their audience all figured out." - Volcanic Tongue
9/17/2006	Irons, Asa & Swann Miller	s/t	LP	$17.99	Spirit of Orr	"Recorded in 2003 as he was travelling around the country, this very simple, intimate, and home spun record continues to stun all who have heard it as a self released CDR. Asa's vocals are complemented so perfectly by his dear friend Swann that the songs resonate with the mutual knowing only old close friends can share. If you are at all familiar with his efforts in FEATHERS, or watched him hunch over a guitar with WTICH, or have been perplexed and amazed at his saw blade solo work, this document will be an irreplaceable eye-opener to how well grounded and concurrently high reaching Asaís music can be. Limited to 600 copies on opaque grey vinyl, packaged in black jackets with art by Hillary Irons glues to the front. This is one of 'those' records, a classic." Recommended!
11/21/2009	Is	Awesome Vistas #8	LP	$14.99	Awesome Vistas	"The soundtrack music for the CHRIS JOHANSON exhibit Totalities at Deitch Projects in New York in September 2008. Two songs each about 20 minutes long and recorded live, mainly drum and wind instrument with electric cello, a little keyboard, two acoustic guitars, fiddle making very positive celebration of life music that you will find inspiring. It is somewhere between free jazz and drum circle music. 13 people played on this session recorded in Portland, Oregon; SAM COOMES, TOM GREENWOOD, CHELSEY JOHNSON, BRIAN MUMFORD, SARA LUND, EMIL AMOS, CYNTHIA NELSON, AURELIA NELSON-RESKE, BOB JONES, TARA JANE O’NEIL, JEFF KRIKSCIUM, NICHOLUS BINDEMAN, and Chris Johanson. Produced, Recorded and mixed by Sam Coomes. Co-Produced by Tom Greenwood and Chris Johanson. Art work by JOHANNA JACKSON and Chris Johanson, silkscreened by NEIL BURKE at Monoroid."
10/25/2008	Is	Rogue Wave	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"illinoizer brian tholl continues his pain-focussed dirt works on rogue wave, a stark c40 with greyscale electronics and massive skull staplers. his sounds through is are like towers that are built up and sent crumbling to the ground, ending with rats scattering through the ruins. utterly bitter."
	Ishizuka, Toshiaki	In The Night	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Second solo album (the first was self-released a few years back) from the dynamic Vajra drummer. The more diligent PSF linernote cataloguers amongst will doubtless also have noticed Ishizuka's long involvement with folk-poet Kazuki Tomokawa's group, an involvement that dates back to the seventies. Back then Ishizuka was best known in Japan as part of the legendary ur-punk group Zuno Keisatsu. He is also the leader of the elegant cinematic (funnily enough) Cinorama, a frequent collaborator with Kan Mikami, and all-round irrepressible drum-slinger for hire. In the West, Ishizuka is probably best known for the martial powerhouse thunderstorms he calls down with PSF supergroup Vajra, but, as this album shows, there's a lot more to him than plain old sweat and muscles. Complexly layered gong tones, bottomless toms, and a multi-varied rhythmic sense that is all his own. The whole thing is shot through with a most appealing sense of fiercely still concentration. This is one of the deepest and, dare we say it, most spiritually resonant percussion records you're going to hear this year." - Alan Cummings.
11/4/2006	Isis and Werewolves	untitled	7"	$25.99	AA Records	One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label.
6/17/2004	Islaja	Meritie	CD	$18.99	Fonal Records	"Islaja might well be a forgotten islet somewehere or a name of courageous sword swinging heroine in a forgotten fable. For one, Islaja is a certain young woman that has sang and played an album full of heart-rending intimate music. Half a year of quietly working in her homestudio brought about a cluster of transcendental tunes that are now being released as an album called Meritie. One song Islaja whispered in a fewer and another with an oriental monkey. At times it is impossible to tell where the sounds are coming from. The variety of instruments is vast, but all have their space and strong belief in the power of individual sounds can be heard. Islaja has exceptional sense of harmony that alone can make the album a magical listening experience. The voice of Islaja sounds bravely over the screaming crazed sea-gulls. It is stunningly honest. This is a great victory in these times of sadness." Sami from Fonal said "Its a bit like Kemialliset Ystävät and Fursaxa but with a more traditional Finnish feel to it. Its a girl from Finland who's done all the stuff alone. Its one of the records in the Fonal catalogue I nowadays listen to most." Highly recommended!
4/16/2007	Islaja	Ulual Yyy	CD	$18.99	Fonal	"Islaja's third album is a journey deeper into the world that for us is a dream and a fairytale, but to her a reality. Islaja as a concept has turned into a star that is expected to shine with brilliance. But she is something else. The songs tell us about the decay of our age, its demise and immorality, its plunge into heartless consumer culture. Islaja herself does not burn in that same fire. Her fire is an inner fire. Behind her eyes and in her heart you can see and hear her true charisma. True dedication and utter disrespect for the artificial authority made by men. Yet she is not the self-destructive Nico or the eccentric Björk. But a good woman. A tough one. Her eyes can burn a hole in you. Her songs are poems and stabbing knives. - Sami Sänpäkkilä." "Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a young visual artist and musician living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Islaja records her music at home using a rainbow of instruments to accompany her personal vocal delivery sung in Finnish. She has performed with Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and is also a member of Hertta Lussu Ässä, a free-folk super trio with Lau Nau and Kuupuu."
4/16/2007	Islaja	Ulual Yyy	LP	$21.99	Fonal	"Islaja's third album is a journey deeper into the world that for us is a dream and a fairytale, but to her a reality. Islaja as a concept has turned into a star that is expected to shine with brilliance. But she is something else. The songs tell us about the decay of our age, its demise and immorality, its plunge into heartless consumer culture. Islaja herself does not burn in that same fire. Her fire is an inner fire. Behind her eyes and in her heart you can see and hear her true charisma. True dedication and utter disrespect for the artificial authority made by men. Yet she is not the self-destructive Nico or the eccentric Björk. But a good woman. A tough one. Her eyes can burn a hole in you. Her songs are poems and stabbing knives. - Sami Sänpäkkilä." "Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a young visual artist and musician living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Islaja records her music at home using a rainbow of instruments to accompany her personal vocal delivery sung in Finnish. She has performed with Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and is also a member of Hertta Lussu Ässä, a free-folk super trio with Lau Nau and Kuupuu."
6/27/2009	Island Ice	Island Ice	c30 cassette	$7.99	Wagon	A new c30 of John Elliott's (Emeralds) first synthesizer recordings called "Island Ice"
	IST	Anagrams To Avoid	LP	$11.99	Siwa	"This was the debut release by the string trio of Simon Fell, Mark Wastell and Rhodri Davies. The small edition on vinyl only snuck out in 1997 and was criminally ignored (due admittedly in part to Siwa's reluctant approach to promotional activities). One reviewer at the time said it wouldn1t have been out of place in the Incus catalogue and the observation seems to have been validated somewhat by the current double CD on that label that adds another six strings to the line up courtesy of Derek Bailey. Unusual instrumentation of bass, cello and harp combine to offer everything from wildly dense clusters of noise to long passages of cavernous scraping and droning. All this offered up in a rather nice screenprinted cover designed by Simon H. Fell as an homage to constructivist El Lissitzky. At this stage pretty much the only thing still available (so to speak) from the Siwa catalogue."
2/16/2003	Itsumi, Yuji	Free Will	Book / CD	$58.99	PSF	"For the past ten years, Tokyo-based photographer Yuji Itsumi has taken a series of remarkably evocative B&W photos of many underground musicians for the PSF magazine G-Modern. Itsumi's intensely intimate photos capture the musicians off-stage in their everyday lives, but still manage to capture a sure sense of their music. This book compiles Itsumi's work for G-Modern, along with short interviews (in Japanese only) with each of the twenty-nine musicians featured. Those pictured include giants of the Japanese underground like Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Chie Mukai, Kan Mikami, and Masayoshi Urabe, alongside international doyens of free-playing such as Derek Bailey, Arthur Doyle, Charles Gayle, Han Bennink, and Peter Brotzmann. The book comes with a nine-track, hour long CD containing previously unreleased tracks by Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuo Imai, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Toshiaki Ishizuka, Hiroshi Kawani, Chie Mukai, and Kan Mikami with Masayoshi Urabe." - Alan Cummings. Edition of 500 copies.
9/10/2003	Itsumi, Yuji	Photography Meets Music	Video	$17.99	PSF	Video version of the Yuji Itsumi book. Itsumi Yuji (photography); Ohkuchi Junichiro (piano); Imai Kazou (Live electroacoustic); Urabe Masayoshi (alto sax). 80 minutes.
8/21/2003	Izititiz	Lucky Bird	CD	$9.99	Conduit Creations	Izititiz is Ras Moshe / James Duncan / Carter Thornton / Jesse Wallace / Matt Heyner. "Following their initial tape release on Conduit Creations, The Diaper Band / Moshe’s Mix Vol. I, and subsequent vinyl offering, with our with jazz, New York’s IZITITIZ presents Lucky Bird, a work inspired by such personalities and artifacts as Alan Arenius, the roof of ABC No Rio, Animal, a pet pigeon, Nami Yamamoto’s Freedumb and a set of Hinthouse chimes. The music is envisioned as a soundtrack to the story of a manimal drummer’s search for a mythic box of Cuban Jade hidden in a paper bag. Along the way he meets a pigeon named Lucky Bird with whom he shares an affinity for dancing around socks to drum solos. While they dance, two ghosts appear: Zashiki-Warashi and Kattorimatto, two dead idiots from the clan of Takechi Samurai. Rounding out the group is a flamingo trainer, desperate for any adventure which will help him escape from the Northern authorities. Without revealing too much of the story, expect harrowing episodes such as: *Cupcake captured by the Northern authorities! *Kattorimatto becomes a zombie in an unusual trance ceremony! *Lucky Bird, in an attempt to save the Jade from destruction, eats it! *'The band' is cloned during a search of the ghost town 'Clit Stop Junction'!"